Applying Different Art Styles

In my previous post, I investigated different art and photographic styles and showed an example of an art nouveau style applied to an old photograph of myself and a friend. See blog post titled Different Art Styles. In this post, I'd like to apply some other effects to the same photograph. Even before my Deep Research article I'd applied three other effects. See Figures 1, 2 and 3.

Figure 1: Aubrey Beardsley style

Figure 2: Vincent Van Gogh style

Figure 3: psychedelic style

Now I'll apply some of the effects suggested by the Deep Research article, the full text of which can be found in my previous post.

Figure 4: Art Deco style

Figure 5: Vienna Secession style

Figure 6: Pre-Raphaelite style

Figure 6: Ukiyo-e style

That's a selection from a longer list of possibilities. Some work better than others when humans are in the picture. I particularly liked the Pre-Raphaelite style.

The YouTuber Pete Beard has a comprehensive series of videos about various artists. Figure 7 shows a screen shot of the first 20 of them:

Figure 7

Gemini recommends the following strategy for obtaining the best results in getting Nano Bananas to emulate an artistic style using Art Nouveau as an example:

Strategy: Instead of just describing "Art Nouveau," the user should upload a high-resolution image of a Mucha poster or a Klimt painting as a style reference.

Elsewhere Gemini advises the following:

One of the biggest challenges in style transfer is losing the identity of the subject. Nano Bananas features "Character Consistency".

Application: When applying a heavy style like Tim Burton or Cubism, the user should explicitly prompt to maintain facial landmarks.

Prompt Structure: "A portrait of [User] in the style of Tim Burton. Maintain subject likeness. Pale skin, large eyes, gothic background."

Result: The AI will adapt the proportions and texture (large eyes, sketch lines) to the style while keeping the fundamental biometric data recognizable. 

Using Charles Keeping as the artist, I uploaded an illustration of his. See Figure 8.

Figure 8

I then prompted Nano Bananas to apply this style to the photograph and Figure 9 shows the quite satisfying result.

Figure 9